A vaccine can halve your risk, but if you do get shingles, see your doctor immediately for prescription meds. And check out these nontraditional ways to further ease the pain. Acupuncture Chinese studies have shown that acupuncture can reduce the pain of shingles and speed the time it takes for sores to begin healing.
Field then teamed up with an inventor and came up with the play pump -- a children's merry-go-round that pumps clean, safe drinking water from a deep borehole every time the children start to spin. Soup to nuts, the whole operation takes a few hours to install and costs around $7,000.
The standard sump pump ($100 to $200) is 1/3-horsepower, which is powerful enough to remove 1,800 to 2,200 gallons an hour, a pretty significant flood. If youâre in an extreme flood zone â or your machine will have to pump the water up 10 feet or more of vertical pipe to get it outside â move up to a Â½-horsepower ($150 to $350) pump, which can handle 3,000 gallons an hour.